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We study the billiard dynamics in annular tables between two excentric circles. As the center and the radius of the inner circle change, a two parameters map is defined by the first return of trajectories to the obstacle. We obtain an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-24 R. B. Batista , M. J. Dias Carneiro , S. Oliffson Kamphorst

The ideal Galton board and Lorentz gas billiard models have been studied numerically and analytically primarily in settings where friction and rotational velocity are neglected. We eliminate these simplifying assumptions and study the…

In the present note, we uncover a remarkable connection between the length of periodic orbit of a classical particle enclosed in a class of 2-dimensional planar billiards and the energy of a quantum particle confined to move in an identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Subhasis Panda , Sabyasachi Maulik , Somdeb Chakraborty , S. Pratik Khastgir

A variety of mesoscopic systems can be represented as a billiard with a random coupling to the exterior at the boundary. Examples include quantum dots with multiple leads, quantum corrals with different kinds of atoms forming the boundary,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Igor Rozhkov , Ganpathy Murthy

We consider classical billiards in plane, connected, but not necessarily bounded domains. The charged billiard ball is immersed in a homogeneous, stationary magnetic field perpendicular to the plane. The part of dynamics which is not…

chao-dyn · Physics 2010-12-09 N. Berglund , H. Kunz

We study the dynamical properties of a particle in a non-planar square billiard. The plane of the billiard has a sinusoidal shape. We consider both the static and time-dependent plane. We study the affect of different parameters that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-06 Sedighe Raeisi , Parvin Eslami

We introduce a class of convex, higher-dimensional billiard models which generalise stadium billiards. These models correspond to the free motion of a point-particle in a region bounded by cylinders cut by planes. They are motivated by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-07 Thomas Gilbert , David P. Sanders

The aim of this work is to continue the analysis, started in arXiv:2105.02108, of the dynamics of a point-mass particle $P$ moving in a galaxy with an harmonic biaxial core, in whose center sits a Keplerian attractive center (e.g. a Black…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Irene De Blasi , Susanna Terracini

We introduce a new class of billiard systems in the plane, with boundaries formed by finitely many arcs of confocal conics such that they contain some reflex angles. Fundamental dynamical, topological, geometric, and arithmetic properties…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-06-04 Vladimir Dragović , Milena Radnović

The statistics of energy levels of a rectangular billiard, that is perturbed by a strong localized potential, are studied analytically and numerically, when this perturbation is at the center or at a typical position. Different results are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Saar Rahav , Shmuel Fishman

All the segments (or their continuations) of a billiard trajectory inside an ellipsoid of $\Rset^n$ are tangent to n-1 quadrics of the pencil of confocal quadrics determined by the ellipsoid. The quadrics associated to periodic billiard…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-04 Rafael Ramirez-Ros

Billiard models of single particles moving freely in two-dimensional regions enclosed by hard walls, have long provided ideal toy models for the investigation of dynamical systems and chaos. Recently, billiards with (semi-)permeable walls…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-19 Katherine Holmes , Joseph Hall , Eva-Maria Graefe

We call internal-wave billiard the dynamical system of a point particle that moves freely inside a planar domain (the table) and is reflected by its boundary according to this rule: reflections are standard Fresnel reflections but with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-01-10 Marco Lenci , Claudio Bonanno , Giampaolo Cristadoro

We report on the experimental investigation of the properties of the eigenvalues and wavefunctions and the fluctuation properties of the scattering matrix of closed and open billiards, respectively, of which the classical dynamics undergoes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Runzu Zhang , Weihua Zhang , Barbara Dietz , Chai Guozhi , Liang Huang

We consider a billiard problem for compact domains bounded by confocal conics on a hyperboloid of one sheet in the Minkowski space. We show that there are two types of confocal families in such setting. Using an algebro-geometric…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Sean Gasiorek , Milena Radnovic

We study the effect of edge diffraction on the semiclassical analysis of two dimensional quantum systems by deriving a trace formula which incorporates paths hitting any number of vertices embedded in an arbitrary potential. This formula is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Henrik Bruus , Niall D. Whelan

In this paper we define and study the billiard problem on bounded regions on surfaces of constant curvature. We show that this problem defines a 2-dimensional conservative and reversible dynamical system, defined by a Twist diffeomorphism,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Luciano Coutinho dos Santos , Sonia Pinto-de-Carvalho

Given a domain or, more generally, a Riemannian manifold with boundary, a billiard is the motion of a particle when the field of force is absent. Trajectories of such a motion are geodesics inside the domain; and the particle reflects from…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fedor Duzhin

We investigate a rotated, orthogonal gravitational wedge billiard - a special case of the asymmetric wedge billiard - in which the dynamics are integrable. We derive equations and conditions under which periodic orbits may be constructed…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-10-10 K. D. Anderson

We consider a class of random billiards in a tube, where reflection angles at collisions with the boundary of the tube are random variables rather than deterministic (and elastic) quantities. We obtain a (non-standard) Central Limit Theorem…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Henk Bruin , Niels Kolenbrander , Dalia Terhesiu